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my favorite line was, "you're gonna love my nuts."

also, since when is a pile of chopped up boiled egg breakfast "to go" ?

hilarious.

The appealing thing about Vince is that it feels like they plucked him straight off of a product demo at the retail pavillion at the county fair. (And I'm sure that's exactly what they're going for; that's why he wears the headset.) For some reason I always found those perversely entertaining.

I hate Vince so much. He's so seedy. I feel like he'd be handing me the slap chop with one hand and stealing my wallet (and maybe my soul) with the other. I would never buy something from him... He's even worse than the infomercial guy that yells ALL THE TIME.

I think I like Vince because he's so sketchy. I think it's hilarious! You'll say WOW

I love how these informercials take a product that's been around forever (I've had the Oxo GoodGrips version of this thing for years) and make it seem exciting! and new!

I saw an informercial just the other day for a Bluetooth headset with the same pitch, a brand-new innovation only available on this Special TV Offer!

@Max Fishcher:

LOL, I love the microphone - it makes him look like the guy at Costco who hawks juicers. In the old days of infomercials they'd always have a studio audience where the mic made sense. Now it's just funny...

Vince is....well, Vince is awesome. I'mma marry him.

best line was when using the cheese grater and he just starts to rhyme things that have nothing to do with cheese like bikini and martini

@Edwardkimuk: YES, I LOVED THAT PART!!

"you're gonna be slapping your troubles away"

uh... I don't want a chopper for that.

I'd pay to see a Billy Mays vs. Vince cage match. They each get to use their own products as weapons.

haha that's so funny. my boyfriend and i see the shamwow commercial all the time. the first time i thought vince was creepy. but the more i saw the commercial, the more i was intrigued by the shamwow. i kind of want one. the slap chop...not so much.

i was so intrigued by the shamwow commercial, i actually googled "vince shamwow" and found a wiki article on him. his name is vince offer! is that for real?

yeah apparently vince offer is a sketchy guy in real life and made the most offensive comedy movie ever. but heck, i'd still buy anything from him!

Boring tuna = Boring life...now its all clear to me! Thanks, Vince!!!!

All that, and we're gonna make America skinny - one slap at a time.

I"m with spartana07. The first time I saw this commercial, I fell out when he said "your gonna love my nuts". Classic.

Unlike Max Fischer, I can't say I like that this guy wears a microphone despite being filmed in a studio. It annoys me for some reason, and makes him come across as an idiot.

To be exact, I can't stand this guy at all. His commercials are too long, and he seems like a putz.

Also, my mother had something very similar to this porduct in the 70s, and it worked great. It was a little bigger though, but still.

I find it funny that all these years later, we have some crackpot selling this sort of thing, like it's the next Magic Bullet. Even worse, are those watching it, going "Wow, I gotta get one of those!".

Am I imagining that he had an Aussie accent when the Sham Wow first showed up? And no, I will never love his nuts........

@DaveFaris: It's not an infomercial; it's performance art.

...wait, it's for real?

I have my parents late 50s version of this primitive food processor, which is a one cup glass measuring cup with a wood disk in the bottom, and a four-bladed spring-loaded chopper mounted in a very 50s patterned lid.
I've used it for some things that don't require even-sized results, which you'll never get unless you are pounding something into powder.

What is that accent? Long Island? Some weird Scandinavian country? Somebody please tell me what the hell that accent is, it's been annoying the hell out of me.

okay, vince is 100x more awesome than billy mays. also, robyn, i love your posts - i'm always like, how does she know exactly what i'm thinking?!?!

@absentmindedprof: I CAN READ YOUR MIIIIND.

I CAN LOOK INTO IT RIGHT NOOOW.

..Please tell me you're thinking of manatees, because that's all I see.

I used to own one of these food chopper things (different brand though). Has anyone else ever used these? I found them useless. Everytime I tried to chop something it would end up wedged in the zig zagged blades. I also found that if you didn't have a dishwasher and had to wash this thing by hand forget it. I simply could not get into all the nooks and crannies. Has anyone else ever used one and found the same difficulties or do I just have issues :)

Vince really IS strangely compelling and I'm glad you guys included him here at Serious Eats. I'm so tired of Billy May's monotoned YELLING through the whole commercial, you just tune him out. When Vince gets on, you experience the guy in the middle of the mall, doing his demonstration for the tenth time that day and really doesn't care anymore--he just wants you do buy the damn thing so he can go home. He's really kind of entertaining himself, in a way. I was so happy to see him pick up another stupid product that I MIGHT just buy when I see it on the "as seen on TV" rack.

And yes, I've used one of those choppers and actually, they're OK for what they do, but I'd rather get out my Victorinox knife and my German mandolin from QVC (it was a GIFT--but it's damn good!)

Love the mic and the cheesy spiel. I used to go to the state fair and watch the product hawkers (whopper-choppers, fuel saving devices, blenders, etc) work the crowd the same way. As a 12 yr old, I could spot the BS, so watched in amazement as moronic adults lined up to fork over their money.

I could never say the BS those guys delivered without blushing in shame. I developed an admiration for their ability to pour it on with such conviction. As said above, it is performance art.

Vince looks like he was just released from Rikers last week. Love when he disassembles the gadget - he's too cool for school. But I can only do this for 20 more minutes.

@Martini--I have one from Pampered Chef and it's awesome. I use a bottle brush to clean between the blades and never have any trouble with the blades getting hung up while it's chopping.

I can't stand Vince. I think Billy Mays is the Sith Lord and Vince is his apprentice. I did like how he threw the "bad" chopper over his shoulder. Would've been better if he'd also said, "Bork bork bork"!

If the commercial is on, I'll watch it. He throws the sell out there with his own unique style. He's not a monotone robot. There's "Vince" in his presentation. Plain and simple ........... I like him. Vince is cool.